Recently burned native ranges are characterized by high quality-low volume herbage. Davis and Kirk,-^in tests at the Range Cattle Station, Ona, Florida, found that protein varied from 10 percent in very young wiregrasstype forage to 1.5 to 2.5 percent in old wiregrass. Phosphorus values were usually below 0.10 percent and often below 0.05 percent. Killinger reported as much as 0.18 phosphorus in wiregrass 2 11 days after burning on Leon fine sand in central Florida. Otherwise his findings were similar to those of Davis and Kirk. Florida Company. Chemical analyses were made by Mr.